Outside the system
Category: Foreign Affairs
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Hong Kong Protests: ‘The City is Starting to Feel Like a Police State’
Steve Shaw on worrying developments in Hong Kong residents’ fight for freedom – a quest which has now gone beyond concerns about the island’s controversial extradition bill.
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Netanyahu’s Claims of Voter Fraud are Undermining Israel’s Democracy – Not Just Helping him to Another Victory
By accusing Palestinian Israeli voters of trying to steal next week’s election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is taking a tip out of the Donald Trump playbook
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The Return of the Taliban’s Reign in Afghanistan?
A report from Kabul on what a post-peace environment in Afghanistan could look like – and the main players looking for power.
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The Insider who Revealed the Russian Money Nexus in Latvia
15 years ago, John Christmas blew the whistle on fraud at Latvia’s Parex bank. But some of the players he exposed are still at the forefront of Putin’s destabilisation of the West.
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Putin’s Funding of Italy’s Far-Right: The Pivotal Role of Aleksandr Dugin
Zarina Zabrisky provides a timeline of Aleksandr Dugin’s career and his connections to Russian Intelligence.
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Putting Indian and Chinese Soldiers in Charge of Protecting the Rohingya Muslims is No Solution
Anti-Muslim animus within the ranks of India and China’s security forces remains extreme, so how can they be called upon to protect the Muslim minority exiled from Myanmar?
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A Paradise Lost
Otto English returns from a trip to St Lucia with fresh insights on the madness of Brexit and our frustrating sense of British complacency.
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Marching for Freedom in Hong Kong
Steve Shaw reports from Hong Kong on the revolution sweeping the streets of the island and its fight for democracy.
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Other Democracies Won’t Stop India’s Warehousing of ‘Undesirables’
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